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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

Tecumseh

The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
TECUMSEH

Claim Common Divide Evil Land Man Stop Unite Way Wequal
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
TECUMSEH

Life Love Native Perfect Thing You
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
TECUMSEH

Demand One Other Religion Respect Trouble
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEH

Good Life Morning Strength Thank Thanksgiving
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEH

Abuse Native One Rob Spirit Thing Turn Vision Wise
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
TECUMSEH

Beautify Life Long Love Make People Perfect Seek Service
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEH

Angry Guest Lying Men Spirit Tell Us
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
TECUMSEH

Fault Food Give Joy Lies Living Reason Thanks Yourself
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TECUMSEH

Children Country Each Less Native Other Right Sell Stranger Tribe
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
TECUMSEH

Come Death Fear Fill Life Little More Pray Time Weep Wisdom
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
TECUMSEH

Being Break Bundle Single Strength Strong Twig
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.
TECUMSEH

Country Give Man Oppression Personmpeople Powerful Summer Sun Today Tribe Up White
When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.
TECUMSEH

Christ Dead Earth God Jesus Kill Own Son Start
I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, “Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.”
TECUMSEH

Country Governor Landmark Obiterarte Own Return Sir Tear
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEH

Death Going Hero Home Sing Song
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH

Day Death Divide Great Noble Over Prepare Song

I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

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